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Descartes and "The Matrix"

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

Ethical Egoism

"the agent ought to promote the self above other values" (Moseley, 2006). This is not as ugly as it sounds: it goes all the way ba...

Ethics in a System of Inquiry

can help to guide the decision making and create a firm foundations that will help to ensure that the outcomes are the best possib...

Seltzer's Serial Killers

that society, or the perpetrators parents, should not be blamed for any horrific acts. The offender is the only one that someone s...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

An Exploration of Consciousness

It is not the awareness, however, which overrides the ignorance, it is the cognition (Mohanty, 2001). Knowledge in this regard ca...

"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

Bertrand Russell: The Value Of Philosophy

third wife and third child come a year apart between 1936 and 1937, while his next publication - A History of Western Philosophy -...

Ethics, Justice, Love, Virtue and the Death Penalty

(Marquand, 1997, p. 1). Dennis Pigman, a minister of the Assembly of God and a former chaplain on the Arkansas death row, believes...

Marx and Weber and the Origins of Capitalism

if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional fac...

Monism and Pluralism

by the theory of monism (Turner). The greatest strength of monism appears to be its simplicity: it admits of only one underlying c...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

The ‘Philosophy’ of Massage Therapy

long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...

The Justin Ellsworth Case (Analysis)

in his account when he passed away. The email provider Yahoo claimed that due to a terms of service agreement, they could not allo...

Quine's "On What There Is"

possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...

Business Cannot Ignore Pollution: It is a Matter of Life, Death, and Ethics

of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...

Free Will and Determinism in Buddhism

one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Ethical Perspectives on Factory Farm Raising of Animals for Human Consumption

with the profits generated from their production of greater importance than the care and welfare of the animals (505). During the...

Questions on Aristotle and Hobbes

Hobbes believed that people, when left to their own governance, that is, without official laws and government, live in continual...

Problems in the Meat-Packing Industry

problems in the industry. Yet, while it is arguable as to the degree of safety problems inherent in the industry, it is safe to sa...

Sense Certainty According to Georg Hegel

sense of direction that otherwise would merely drift in subconscious thought, which also helps to apply a modicum of understanding...

Argumentative Essay on the Personal Decision of Abortion

involves a critical evaluation of values and desires, and to act in accordance with them after careful reflection. Valuing a pers...

Accommodations for Disability

should be accompanied by a synchronized text transcript (closed captioning) and audio announcements should also have a synchronize...

Greek Culture and the Evolution of Science

of science there are two branches which are epistemology and metaphysics (Honderich, 1995). Science makes up an important part of ...

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

Functionalism and Representationalism

the role it plays, in the cognitive system of which it is a part (Levin, 2004). Functionalism is an opinion about the nature of m...

Animal Rights Debate

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

Nursing Ethics

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...